WorksheetsGospel of Luke
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 16mins
I showed up at the temple every day just praying that God would let me live long enough to see the Messiah. He did.
Jude
Matthew
Simeon
Thomas
Longinus
We were chosen to see the baby Jesus before anyone else (in Luke's Gospel).
Camel drivers
Tax collectors
Shepherds
Stable workers
Vineyard workers
Jesus told the fishermen to do what to catch some fish?
Use the right nets
Use the right bait
Pull out into the deep
Get a bigger boat
Call out to the fish with songs of gladness
In that scene when they caught a whole bunch of fish, who didn't feel worthy of Jesus' help?
Judas
Simon Peter
Luke himself
James
John
The notion that sin is a reflection of an empty heart and, thus, when our hearts are empty we make poor choices, but when are hearts are full of love we make good choices, goes back to what scene?
The woman who bathes Jesus' feet with her tears
The Prodigal Son
The Good Samaritan
The Lost Sheep
Samaritans were:
100% Jewish
Half Jewish
Non-Jewish
Splangknizomai means:
Wisdom
Compassion
Honor
Pity
Love
I was really ticked at my lazy sister for sitting at Jesus’ feet while I was doing all the work!
Naomi
Anna
Martha
Abigail
After being ticked off at my lazy sister for not doing any of the housework, Jesus helped me realize that she was fulfilling the necessary role of what?
Being a disciple who develops the interior life
Writing down Jesus’ words for future generations
Being one in dialogue about God’s ways so that we can struggle our ways to deeper intellectual insights and understanding
Keeping Jesus company so he didn’t have to be lonely
The Deathbed meditation, with its specific focus on thinking about the most important things in life from the perspective of the end of our lives, is most germane (fitting and appropriate) to which story?
Prodigal Son
Birth of Jesus
Death of Jesus
Rich Man who built bigger barns
Pharisee and Tax Collector
One man begged that the ______ tree would not be cut down until he had been given another year to try to make it bear fruit. This is symbolic of not giving up on people but instead working to convert their hearts to be good and loving people.
Palm
Date
Sycamore
Pecan
Fig
"Every saint has a(n) ______________, every sinner has a(n) ________________.”
Story, excuse
Purpose, excuse
Purpose, purpose
Past, future
Hope, hate
We often look for ourselves first in a group picture, and even if everyone else looks great, we are upset if we don’t. Also, we are often pretty upset if someone else gets a shout out or an award that we thought we deserved. These are ideas at the core of which story?
Prodigal Son
Good Samaritan
Pharisee and Tax Collector
Places of honor at table
Rich Man and Lazarus
We now know that young violent all criminals all had a really hard time with concentration, but that they can be assisted and it can get better. We also know that sometimes people do horrible things (such as the boy I taught who killed his own parents), but that there is often a history of trauma or abuse that was at work. In the end then, we are called to be slow to judge and simply do whatever we can to help love and assist those who are in bad places in their lives. This whole idea is at the heart of which scene?
Rich Man and Lazarus
Lost Sheep
Fig Tree
Man who built bigger barns
Miraculous draft of fish
There are no stories that talk about Hell in Luke, only stories that talk about Heaven
True
False
Who really looked down on other people because he was so darned proud of himself?
Zacchaeus
Simon Peter
The Tax Collector
Pontius Pilate
The Pharisee
Who climbed up the sycamore tree to get a better look at Jesus?
Zacchaeus
The Pharisee
Martha
Mary
The Rich Man
What did Jesus do when he gazed down upon Jerusalem soon before he was to be killed?
Cursed them
Warned them one last time to convert their hearts
Blessed them
Wept for them
Was transfigured before their eyes
"Much will be demanded from those whom much has been given” also implies that:
Some people are doing the best they can with what they’ve got, but what they’ve got isn’t much
The road to heaven is a very narrow one because all of us have been given what we need to be saved
God will show us the book of deeds of our lives and if our deeds are not numerous enough we will have to suffer the consequences.
Jesus says on the cross in Luke, “Father,____________________”
I thirst
I return my life to you
Forgive them, for they know not what they do
Not my will, but your will be done
Though none of us is Jesus, perhaps the summit of the Christian message is that we can close the gap between ourselves and Jesus with respect to being a person of love, and in so doing, we will even find the power to:
Do miraculous things
No longer feel anger
Love our enemies
Stop worrying
Some people object to the idea of the good and bad thieves on the cross because:
It seems unfair that a person could be bad their whole life and give a deathbed confession and still go to Heaven.
Only God can send someone to Heaven of Hell--Jesus was not allowed to do that
Only the good thief was saved--it should have been both if Christianity is really founded on love and mercy
What's in your "sycamore tree"? (write a good paragraph)
